Luigi Pederzani

Luigi Pederzani

mcp-use
mcp-use (YC S25): Vercel for MCP
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Building mcp-use (YC S25): Open-source Vercel for MCP. Our open-source SDK allows you to build MCP Agents in 6 lines of code. It’s one of the most popular MCP libraries with 4,000 stars on Github, ~100k downloads and used by devs in top companies. "Learn to build. Learn to sell. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.” – Naval Ravikant. I'm a software engineer with a product-driven mindset and an entrepreneurial edge. - Launched a YouTube channel, growing it to 150k subscribers and 15M views. - Founding engineer in an early-stage startup, getting my hands dirty with much stuff. - Senior software engineer in a big corp, led a team that shipped features to 10M+ users. Always open to connecting and sharing ideas, let’s chat! 💬

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Maker History

  • mcp-useOpen source SDK and infra for MCP servers & agents
    Aug 2025
  • OrangoIncrease user activation with an AI Agent in your product
    Mar 2025
  • MorgenWhere time for your work+life+hustle are managed, your way.
    Nov 2023
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 9th, 2023

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We finally launched our new product after the pivot!

This is my cofounder and I at midnight following the launch, support us here:


https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

I pivoted Orango to MCP-USE and launching soon 🚀

I was building Orango to allow AI agents to use any software product.

Then, MCP came out.
Model Context Protocol is the new standard for connecting LLMs to external tools, data sources, and environments.

So we started building mcp-use, the open-source library to interact with MCP servers with custom agents.

Are GitHub stars important for YC applications?

Hello PH

We applied to Y Combinator few days ago and we ve had a few spikes in GitHub stars after sharing our open-source project with dev communities.

But we re wondering: how important are GitHub stars when applying to YC?

Also curious to hear from fellow open-source builders:

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